“The Reapers had fallen. Our minds were broken, we couldn’t think, some of us could hardly walk. The war was done, it was won, even if some might argue we had lost. But when we assembled that day, when the commander drew the line in the sand and offered us the chance to end our war for each and every soul if the wished, not a single body crossed the line. Everyone had family, friends, and justice to face outside our work. But we all knew the truth. The galaxy won the war, but it would never really be done until the end of time. Kali Yuga would come once more some day, and we would have to fight then again too. Someone had to think of mankind first. Maybe we won’t be there with our own rifles. But our children, grandchildren, and our souls will stand there for all sons and daughters of Earth. The whole galaxy would hate us for our efforts, but so what? So I stared upon my comrades. Then, I smiled, for what had I to fear?”
Hi! I’m Bugman. I’m still new to this forum in contrast to some people who have been here years, but I like to think I am somewhat acquainted with it by now. I am here to recruit help for an RP in the Mass Effect setting following the conclusion of the third game in the series. But, with somewhat of a twist.
The players will be the not be the good guys. The team, the crew, everyone will be part of Cerberus. We might not exactly be the mustache twirling villains, but we're going to need some serious lawyering to even convince someone we're anti-heroes.
With the reaper war finished in the control ending and the reaper fleets going into dark space, these people full of reaper implants will have their minds broken. They will struggle to deal with a new world, where they aren’t sure if their thoughts are their own or the work of the alien steel still within their bodies even though the source of indoctrination is long gone.
But though extinction by the reapers is a threat disappeared, mankind will find that there is once more an existential threat. When nobody else will do anything to protect the rights of man, the Three Headed Hound will arise. This cell of Cerberus will initially be small-fry, their organization’s much diminished power following the reaper war meaning the scope of their activities will be greatly reduced. However, they will eventually stumble upon a galaxy-wide conspiracy that threatens every man woman and child of the milky way. Ready or not, Cerberus and the player team will have to rise to the occasion and save a world that hates them all while wrestling their own demons and loyalties.
I will expect just a few rules to be followed:
-Follow site-wide rules and guidelines.
-Commit to the story and characters. Frequent and consistent posting is required.
-Communicate clearly if you're unable to post or wish to change anything.
-Seriously, respect each other. Be open to feedback and discussion.
To date, I am not ready to currently launch this RP. I have many details I am yet to decide on, and how to bridge the gaps between individual posts and scenes, to the much broader plot. However, the goal is to create an RP environment where the players are part of not just a living and breathing crew, but also determine the fate of the organization they are suddenly far more important in, to guide its politics and indeed the fate of the galaxy. The crew will have place for many different people: biotics, soldiers, scientists, doctors, tech specialists, and much more. Similarly, the player who is the commander of the ship can be of a diverse background, and the RP will just as easily accommodate a commander who receives a crew that covers their weaknesses and complements their strengths as one that simply mirrors and concentrates their existing skill-set to make a more specialized if less versatile cell of Cerberus.
Moreover, if and when this hopefully gains sufficient traction to continue on, I wish to expand this with a spinoff RP in the same subsetting following a team of spectres and their trustees formed to track and hunt the Cerberine team and potentially stumble upon the same grand conspiracies and threats that Cerberus is dealing with.
This is all quite a daunting effort to me. To that end, I wish to seek out only two, maybe three people for now to build off of. First, I want to find somebody that is a co-GM, a thought heavily inspired by a legendary Firefly RP I am in! Somebody to proofread a load of my ideas, help bridge them to make sense together and be internally consistent, and perhaps most importantly, to help keep it running if for whatever reason I am briefly indisposed. Second, I want somebody to play a “main character”. A Shepard-esque figure, in charge of herding the cats that their team will be. Somebody that has the first say in the hard decisions, somebody who will take the first blame for failure and the first praise for success. A person who resolves disputes between team members, who decides what the priorities of their Cerberus cell are, who represents the amalgam of the Cell’s ideas, thoughts and feelings and will help mold the greater organization of Cerberus in this image. They will make the first line of decisions with the greatest consequences. Depending on what me and the potential co-GM come up with, there might be a brief period where we do some 1x1 stuff to actually play out details of backstory, and “prologue” to the main story. We the GMs will also likely play some NPCs within the crew to both pad out roles too minor for players like a ship janitor.
While we will begin with something minor just shortly after the war, as the galaxy and Cerberus alike recover more and more from the Reaper-War there will come a time where both the grand-scale plot is followed and more personal items of interest to each character (analogous to perhaps ME2’s loyalty missions) will come to the fore.
Please post here or message me if you're interested, I should reply within a day or two.
To people who are interested in the RP if not quite these roles, I am excited to hear from you too though regretfully I must say it will be some time before you might see something yourself. However, hearing roles people might want to take early is good too.
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